I'd rather have the next book get written, but I'd wait to see how the fans receive it, and if the consensus is that it wasn't done justice, I would pretend it didn't exist.
*in a series that has previously all been written by one person
Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1
The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.
So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.
So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.
Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.
And the probe is working again.
From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.
More stories where romance is not the point but it is a point.
We’re on a quest and I’m liking you more and more.
I’m training to be a wizard and you’re training to be a knight and I hope I can convince you we should get married when we meet again.
We’ve got lives to live and this spaceship to fly and people to help and I love you.
I’m a king and you are my loyal companion who helped keep me alive long enough to take the throne I love you and that could become more than it is.
I trust your rule and I will protect you and I think I love you.
I’m a ruler and this marriage is for heirship and I’ve got a thousand other duties but you are passionate and intelligent and understanding and we could love each other.
The world is crumbling as we know it but we always intended to get married and why should we let this get in the way
We’re both busy fighting schemes and keeping alive but I love you let’s stay alive
Love is transformative but it’s everyday. It happens while you are living. It doesn’t take you away.